A Wake County Superior Court Judge issued a preliminary injunction against D. Scott Heineman and Joyce Earl Delancy Lambeth, finding that there was good and sufficient cause to believe they are engaged in unfair and deceptive acts and practices in violation of the North Carolina statute. The injunction prohibits several activities including: advertising mortgage elimination services to North Carolina residents, soliciting or receiving money for mortgage elimination services from North Carolina residents, filing any documents in the public records in any county of North Carolina including . . . document[s] being used in a scheme to have a deed of trust satisified with less than full payment or where defendants purport to sign the documents as attorney-in-fact or agent for any lending institution without identified authorization.

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The preliminary injunction does not extend to Kurt Johnson as he had not been served with the summons and complaint; however, the original temporary restraining order remains in place as to Johnson.